Archives Catalogue

MS-13-11
Fonds
1805-1972

Fonds consists of Oscar Donovan's photographs, newspaper clippings, mementos, and correspondence from World War One and World War Two, including records related to Dalhousie No. 7 Overseas Stationary Hospital, with which his wife served.

Donovan, Oscar Glennie

Photograph of medical officers and nurses of the No. 7 Stationary Hospital

MS-13-11, PB Box 4, Folder 30
Item
[after 1914]

Part of Oscar Glennie Donovan fonds

Item is a photograph of the No. 7 Stationary Hospital medical and nursing staff with some family members, which suggests that picture was taken in Halifax some time before they left for France.

Photograph of Oscar Donovan

MS-13-11, PB Box 4, Folder 31
Item
[after 1912?]

Part of Oscar Glennie Donovan fonds

Item is a photographic portrait of Oscar Donovan in the Canadian Army Medical Corps uniform.

Photograph of an unidentified Canadian Army Medical Corps nurse

MS-13-11, PB Box 4, Folder 32
Item
[after 1912?]

Part of Oscar Glennie Donovan fonds

Item is a photographic portrait of an unidentified woman (possibly Lela Donovan) in a Canadian Army Medical Corps uniform. The photograph was taken by Harry J. Moss, Halifax, and is mounted on card in a folding cardboard frame.

Brochure on the history of the Dalhousie University No. 7 Stationary Hospital

MS-13-11, SF Box 57, Folder 14, Item 1
Item
[ca. 1919]

Part of Oscar Glennie Donovan fonds

File contains a brochure on the history of the Dalhousie University No. 7 Stationary Hospital. The brochure includes a brief history of the hospital and a nominal role of staff that worked with the hospital. The brochure also includes transcriptions of letters and lists of staff transferred in and out of the hospital.

Dalhousie University. No. 7 Overseas Stationary Hospital

Dalhousie University No. 7 Stationary Hospital collection

MS-13-2
Collection
1915 - 1977

Collection consists of a booklet about the history of the No. 7 Stationary Hospital, correspondence of nursing matron Laura Hubley, a book of signatures of the unit's members, and correspondence and a small album containing postcards sent by Sgt. A. Fraser Tupper (who worked with the unit in 1916 and 1917) to his nephew, Ralph Kane.

Canada. Canadian Army Medical Corps. Canadian Stationary Hospital, no. 7

Photograph of the officers, nursing sisters, non-commissioned officers and men of the Dalhousie University No. 7 Stationary Hospital

MS-13-2, Oversize Folder 1
Item
1915

Part of Dalhousie University No. 7 Stationary Hospital collection

File contains two copies of a photograph of the officers, nursing sisters, N.C.Os and men of the No. 7 Stationary Hospital C.E.F., Dalhousie Unit. The photograph shows the soldiers and nursing sisters sitting or standing in four rows with snow on the ground and buildings in the background. Some names are written in pencil on one of the copies.

Dalhousie University No. 7 Stationary Hospital brochure

MS-13-2, SF Box 56, Folder 3
Item
[ca. 1919]

Part of Dalhousie University No. 7 Stationary Hospital collection

File contains a brochure with a brief history of the Dalhousie No. 7 Stationary Hospital, a nominal role of its staff, transcriptions of letters and lists of staff transferred in and out of the hospital.

John Stewart fonds

MS-13-39
Fonds
1812 - 1943

Fonds consists of notebooks, correspondence, books, articles, a photograph, and artifacts.

Stewart, John, Lt. Col. Dr.

Samuel R. Balcom fonds

MS-2-128
Fonds
1830-1980

Fonds contains records documenting the activities, organizations and associations in which Balcom was involved, including the Red Cap Snowshoe Club and the No. 7 Stationary Hospital. Record types include correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, memorabilia and parliamentary papers.

Balcom, Samuel R., Col.

Photograph of reunions of the 66th Battery CEF - CFA in Montreal on October 27, 1956

MS-2-135.2019-081, Box 86, Folder 11
File
1956

Part of Oland family fonds

Lt. Colonel Sidney Oland is 5th from left in the front row. Lt. Colonel Oland commanded the 66th Field Artillery unit in WW1. The photograph was taken by Victor Trower, Montreal.

Photograph of T.H. Raddall, Sr. at a shooting range in Alberta

MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 20, Item 1
Item
July 1914

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Portrait of T.H. Raddall, Sr. in uniform standing in front of a tent at Valcartier Camp, Quebec

MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 20, Item 2
Item
September 1914

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, is a duplicate of material in MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 20, Item 8 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs.

Photograph of a museum display of Royal Winnipeg Rifles Regiment artifacts including a portrait of T.H. Raddall, Sr.

MS-2-202, Box 54, Folder 44, Item 1
Item
[1970?]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, is likely to have been taken in Winnipeg, Manitoba at the Royal Winnipeg Rifles Regiment Museum & Archives.

Photograph of the museum curator Mr. Abrams presenting a display of Royal Winnipeg Rifles Regiment artifacts

MS-2-202, Box 54, Folder 44, Item 2
Item
[1970?]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, is likely to have been taken in Winnipeg, Manitoba at the Royal Winnipeg Rifles Regiment Museum & Archives. The curator is likely Max Abrams.

Photograph of a museum display of artifacts and portraits of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles Regiment

MS-2-202, Box 54, Folder 44, Item 3
Item
[1970?]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, is likely to have been taken in Winnipeg, Manitoba, at the Royal Winnipeg Rifles Regiment Museum & Archives.

Photograph of a cabinet display of artifacts from the Royal Winnipeg Rifles Regiment

MS-2-202, Box 54, Folder 44, Item 4
Item
[1970?]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, is likely to have been in Winnipeg, Manitoba at the Royal Winnipeg Rifles Regiment Museum & Archives. T.H. Raddall, Sr.'s military medals are on display on the top shelf of the cabinet on the left hand side.

Photograph of a mannequin dressed in Royal Winnipeg Rifles Regiment garb set between museum displays of military artifacts

MS-2-202, Box 54, Folder 44, Item 5
Item
[1970?]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, is likely to have been taken in Winnipeg, Manitoba at the Royal Winnipeg Rifles Regiment Museum & Archives.

Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

MS-2-252
Fonds
1915-1957

Fonds primarily consists of records documenting Roome's military career and research interest. The records span World War One and World War Two and include correspondence (1918-1919 and 1942-1946); war diaries (1915-1918 and 1940-1944); addresses and lectures (1928-1949); ca. 165 black and white photographs, mostly of Mesopotamia during World War I and of training exercises during World War II in Debert and Tracadie, Nova Scotia; photographs and postcards of Dalhousie; maps of England, France, and Mesopotamia from World War I; print materials which include newspaper clippings and copies of Canadian military magazines; research notes on the American Civil War; papers while Deputy Adjutant General (1943-1945) regarding awards, transfers, discharges, etc.; and miscellaneous other papers.

Roome, Richard Edward Graham, Brigadier, 1892-1985

Photograph of the 185th Overseas Battalion, Nova Scotia Highland Brigade.

MS-2-288, Oversize Folder 1
Item
1916

Part of Frank Parker Day fonds

File contains 2 copies of the photograph of the 185 Overseas Battalion, Nova Scotia Highland Brigade. The photograph shows the battalion standing in a field with white tents in the background. The Officer in charge was Lieutenant Colonel Frank Parker Day. Photographed by H.O. Dodge in Sydney, Nova Scotia in 1916.

Dodge, H. O.

John Bell's research regarding Leon Trotsky's internment at Amherst, Nova Scotia, during World War One

MS-2-306
File
1974, 1976

File comprises a transcript of an interview with F.C. Wightman and notes from George D. Noiles on Leon Trotsky's month at the Amherst Internment Camp during World War One.

Letter to John Bell from George D. Noiles regarding Leon Trotsky's month at the Amherst Internment Camp during World War One. regarding Leon Trotsky's internment at Amherst, Nova Scotia, during World War One

Part of John Bell's research regarding Leon Trotsky's internment at Amherst, Nova Scotia, during World War One

Transcript of John Bell's interview with F.C. Wightman about Leon Trotsky's month at the Amherst Internment Camp during World War One.

Part of John Bell's research regarding Leon Trotsky's internment at Amherst, Nova Scotia, during World War One

Postcard of British and French warships in the harbour at Sydney, Nova Scotia

MS-2-315, PB Box 2, Folder 84
Item
1906

Part of Gass Family Postcard Collection

Item is a postcard sent from W. Ervin in Sydney, Nova Scotia to Cyril Gass in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia. The image on the front of the postcard is of British and French warships in the harbour at Sydney, Nova Scotia.

Richard Orme Allen fonds

MS-2-474
Fonds
[c. 1917]-1980

Fonds consists of a manuscript about Allen's experiences with one of his superiors during his service on Sable Island, a Department of Marine Notice from 1919, and 60 photographs of Sable Island and its inhabitants.

Allen, Richard Orme

Postcard photograph of Clyde Blakeney in military uniform

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 10
Item
1917

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a postcard photograph produced by Cox Bros., Halifax, N.S., of Clyde Blakeney (who left Sable Island to enlist in the armed forces in the fall of 1917), dressed in military uniform standing atop Citadel Hill.

William Stanley Croft fonds

MS-2-496, SF Box 27, Folder 22
Fonds
1902, 1916

Fonds comprises two letters written to William Croft. The first refers to work in the gold mines, while the second is a request for Croft's permission to allow his sixteen-year-old son to go overseas with the Canadian Forces. There is also a note from James Heyson to John Croft containing a medicinal recipe.

Croft, William Stanley, 1867-1944

Text of an address given by Henry D. Hicks, QC, MLA, to the Bridgetown branch of the Canadian legion

MS-2-511, Box 18, Folder 36
Item
1959

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a Remembrance Day address.

William Rhoades fonds

MS-2-598, SF Boxes 80-82
Fonds
1898-1954

Fonds consists of diaries and notebooks; printed programmes, books, and newspaper clippings regarding Col. William Rhoades or the regiments with which he served, including the 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles. Fonds also contains miscellaneous papers related to his career.

The diaries and notebooks document Rhoades’ activities while posted in the Yukon, South Africa, and Europe during World War I. Some of the notebooks also contain hand drawn maps of battle fields.

Rhoades, William, 1874-1955

Eulogy for Georges P. Vanier written by Hugh Kemp

MS-2-615, Box 130, Folder 19
File
1967

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Canada in flanders / Max Aitken : [book]

MS-2-615, Box 131, Folder 2
File
1915 - 1915

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Correspondence and business documentation collected by G.H. Morrison re. F.B. McCurdy & Co.

MS-2-624
Series
1911 - 1915

Part of George H. Morrison fonds

Series includes business correspondence, newsletters, bulletins, a pamphlet, a book, and a biography of F.B. McCurdy relating to F.B. McCurdy & Co. stockbrokers.

Thomas Cantley fonds

MS-2-755
Fonds
1794 - 2005

Fonds consists of Thomas Cantley's materials accumulated and sometimes annotated by Catherine Campbell in the course of her research on Cantley's life, including correspondence regarding his political and professional activities; correspondence with family members; manuscripts and typescripts; speeches; photographs; financial statements; and other textual records. Fonds also contains records originating with Cantley's family, including correspondence between his children Charles L. Cantley and Marian Cantley, and a letter from Donald F. Cantley to E.W. Sutherland.

Cantley, Thomas

Thomas Cantley's report on the attitude of the British people toward the war

MS-2-755, Box 2, Folder 20
Item
1916

Part of Thomas Cantley fonds

First Presbyterian Church program for a Great War memorial service

MS-2-755, Box 2, Folder 26
Item
[after 1918]

Part of Thomas Cantley fonds

William Edward Maclellan and family fonds

MS-2-762
Fonds
1831 - 2005

Fonds comprises the records of William Edward Maclellan and his family's records, including those of including William Edward and Margaret Jane (Mackenzie) Maclellan; Edward Kirkpatrick and Helen Stewart (Mackay) Maclellan; Robert (Bob) William and Delphine Caroline (Wallace) Maclellan; Jean Stewart Maclellan; Robert William Maclellan; and David Kirkpatrick Stewart Maclellan. Record types include correspondence, photographs, films, newspaper clippings, poems, certificates, booklets, periodicals, notebooks and genealogical charts.

Maclellan, William Edward

Edward Kirkpatrick Maclellan's correspondence with his parents during World War One

MS-2-762, Box 1, Folder 22
File
1914 - 1917

Part of William Edward Maclellan and family fonds

Creelman Family fonds

MS-2-775
Fonds
1887-1999

This accession contains photographs, correspondence, postcards and other memorabilia from various members of the Creelman family.

Creelman Family

Correspondence from Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, November 18, 1915

MS-2-82, Box 15, Folder 14, Item 8
Item
November 18, 1915

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

Item consists of handwritten correspondence written by Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, dated November 18, 1915, in Montreal, Quebec, discussing the difficult decision to enlist in the war effort, and his training for the Canadian Grenadier Guards Overseas Battalion. He then discusses military exploits of mutual friends.

Correspondence from Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, October 11, 1916

MS-2-82, Box 15, Folder 14, Item 9
Item
October 11, 1916

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

Item consists of handwritten correspondence written by Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, dated October 11, 1916, in Montreal, Quebec, discussing training and work with his battalion, chiefly at Bramshott Camp near London.

Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, March 7, 1923

MS-2-82, Box 9, Folder 85, Item 12
Item
March 7, 1923

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

Item consists of handwritten correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to Archibald MacMechan, dated March 7, 1923, from Ste-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec, frankly discussing his struggles with his recovery amid fears he is "slowly becoming a wreck; [often] feeling useless and frightened" and angered by not being told his poor prognosis and difficulty of recovery back in 1917.

Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, August 26, 1915

MS-2-82, Box 9, Folder 85, Item 2
Item
August 26, 1915

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

Item consists of handwritten correspondence sent from Owen Bell Jones to Archibald MacMechan, dated August 26, 1915, thanking MacMechan for his gift of books and that it is very popular among Jones's fellow officers at Valcartier Camp.

Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, September 16, 1915

MS-2-82, Box 9, Folder 85, Item 3
Item
September 16, 1915

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

Item consists of handwritten correspondence sent from Owen Bell Jones to Archibald MacMechan, dated September 16, 1915, at Valcartier Camp (Quebec City), thanking MacMechan for further outfitting of the Camp's library, general anxiousness around Camp, and the hopes of the Battalion soon being deployed to England.

G.P. Hennesey Photograph Collection